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            <h2><span style="mso-font-kerning:0pt">Preface<o:p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">This document 
          continues the work of the Open Applications Group Specification Teams 
          since they were first formed in the fall of 1995.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; 
          </span>It reflects many hundreds of person hours contributed by the 
          Open Applications Group, Inc. member companies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;These people 
          represent the persons who are building, testing, and implementing the 
          business applications thousands of companies are using world wide to 
          run their businesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Many 
          customers and other members of the global software community have also 
          contributed to this effort.</p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;Release 8.0 of 
          OAGIS is not the sum total of all of the interoperability points 
          between business applications but it adds some important and exciting 
          new technical enhancements including:</p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The adoption of 
              long tag names for all Attributes, Field, Compounds, Components, 
              Nouns, Business Object Document.</li>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Fully support the 
              W3C XML Schema Recommendation Released May 2, 2001 by taking full 
              advantage of the typing system, and extension capability XML 
              Schema provides.&nbsp;</li>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The use of the 
              other core XML technologies including XSL and XPath to provide 
              constraints on the BODs and to provide targeted action on the Noun 
              by a given Verb.</li>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">There is a great deal 
          more work to be done and this document will continue to be updated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; 
          </span>Much care has been given to make it as correct as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; 
          </span>If you find any errors, or if you have any comments, please do 
          not hesitate to contact us at <a href="mailto:xml@openapplications.org">xml@openapplications.org</a>..&nbsp;<o:p>
          </o:p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Since each chapter of 
          this document is viewable through a browser and provides hyperlink 
          throughout the documentation it is necessary to unzip the entire zip 
          file in a directory and maintain the hierarchy provided in the zip 
          file. Breaking this directory structure will give you unpredictable 
          results. Additional information about OAGIS 8.0 can be obtained from 
          our Web Site at <a href="http://www.openapplications.org/oagis">www.openapplications.org/oagis</a>.</p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">&nbsp;</span>We here at the Open Applications group 
          hope you will find this document useful. </p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;Best regards,</p>
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            <dt style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
&quot;Playful Print&quot;">David M. Connelly<o:p>
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              </span></b></dt>
            <dt style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;President and CEO,</dt>
            <dt>Open Applications Group, Inc.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"><o:p>
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